Stuck at home in the pandemic

Date 20 March 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
With lifting restrictions in the UK, I have lost my liberties, because I am vulnerable and high risk, which applies to others in my position also. Dealing with autism is making my confinement worse. Masking up, staying safe ...
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Validating my thoughts on Covid

Date 18 March 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
In 12 years of writing, I continue to write the facts, the universal truths… and I have never steered off doing that. Below is a reply from a response on my website from Lisa that validates one of my recent blogs on Covid-19. It’s helpful to get ...
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Mental Health Observations

Date 17 March 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
In Covid-19 I have mentally struggled, but through writing, I am able to turn negative thoughts into positive ones. There is no doubt in the pandemic, I have been taken out of my comfort zone, more than I have in the 46 years I didn’t know about my disability. My…
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Covid-19 hasn't gone away

Date 11 March 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
Now that all restrictions have been dropped in the UK, there is no testing and no wearing of masks, there is still a minority of people wearing masks. People close to me have now got Covid, and who had been safe for 2 years. In one of those cases a…
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Feeling stuck

Date 8 March 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
Now that restrictions have been permanently lifted in the UK, I am feeling stuck and try as anyone might, in Covid-19 it’s not difficult to notice how much you’re muddling through, with dark coloured spectacles on. In the early days of the pandemic, with most of us working together, I…
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Healing your Inner Child

Date 28 February 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
In both books Cerebral Palsy: ‘A Story’ and ‘Spirituality, Healing and Me,’ I write a letter to myself, highlighting different things about what my younger version would say to my adult self. Your Inner Child What would your younger version say to your adult self? How you left your inner…
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UK PM lifts all remaining Covid restrictions

Date 22 February 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
Over the two years we’ve been living with Covid-19, I have continued to write about the pandemic, just so I can lower my anxiety. Throughout I have continued to hope, the UK government would continue to keep measures in place, so that we could all stay safe and now it…
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Changing my trajectory

Date 17 February 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
I could have stayed with the same trajectory, or I could choose to work on a trajectory of integrity and truth, on a disability I didn’t know I had. Growing up without an understanding of my mental and emotional difficulties, my inner child was desperate to know the truth. At…
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Lifting Covid-19 measures

Date 10 February 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
It seems like a while since I’ve written about Covid-19, or perhaps it’s not. But I don’t want my readers to think I come across as jaded, negative, or to say, oh here she is again talking about Covid, but it’s handling in the UK is a real issue, and…
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Emotional Truth

Date 6 February 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
I work with emotional truth. I bring truth into my writing. Through my writing, I am paying it forward for others to have their voices heard. Truth Emotional truth is the truth of our experiences. It is what the universe holds us accountable for and accountability escapes no-one. The success…
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My Childhood Imaginary Friend

Date 1 February 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
As a child, I had a stuffed toy that I made in school called Mongy that became my childhood imaginary friend. It was green one side and purple the other. It was exactly like me, because its left leg was smaller and thinner than its right, because when making it,…
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My Anxiety Bumps

Date 31 January 2022
Author Ilana Estelle
I deal with anxiety and autism in Covid-19 and if Covid is teaching me one thing, it is that I need to regroup. I need to find a balance; a balance between my anxiety and what I have control over. Mental Illness There is no getting away with the fact…
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